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Quote by: Technosoul  For one thing I would suspect that primitive women were just as strong as primitive men were. They can naturally endure more pain and would be better at survival then men.
Sometimes animals will use noise to warn or to scare off potential preditors. If you bang on things a lion might run off. But I doubt if human voices were evolved for that purpose. I just cannot image that sceaming would give anyone much of an advantage in warding off animals who often attack swiftly from the bushes. The apes and chimps are always making racket but I think it has more to do with some kind of socializing then anything else. Perhaps for singing when we wanted to get creative but singing in harmony with low and high scales is hardly something of interest to evolutionists.
But we can start off with now and work backwards. What advantages does this give us nowadays? Does it make men better hunters or fishermen to get a larger voice box? |
Why would you assume women would be as strong as men? Men, generally speaking, have significantly more upper body strength and strenght in general. Males would have had to shove spears into deer or defend their family. Women, if they survived childbirth (no given, this would have likely killed enough women to put their life expectancy even with men) probably would have lived longer, but they are useful as caregivers, while males would have been, most likely dead weight once their bodies became too frail to fight or in other ways help out.
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Does it make us better fighters, or does it help us to escape dangers? Does it improve our social behavior as pack animals?
Saying it has an evolutionary purpose even if we do not know what it is... to me is not a worthwhile answer. It is a non-answer.
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Bellowing can intimidate an opponent before a fight begins, and this intimidating factor obviously has a social function as well.
Plus, to expect us to be able to know exactly what prehistoric man faced and how this affected voice is ridiculous. We can't even predict evolution today.